Garment-supporter



M. STARMER.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16,1920.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921.

MARY STARMER, OF NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 30 1921 Application filed July 16, 1920. Serial No. 396,645.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, MARY, STARMER, a cit1- zen of the United States, residing at New port News, in the county of Warwick and State of Virginia, have invented certain new' and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a speclfication.

My present invention relates to improvements in garment supporters adaptable for use by men or women and designed especially with the view of providing a device which will be comfortable, which will be eflicient in performing its required functions, and which withal is simple in construction and operation, durable, and inexpensive in cost of manufacture. y

With the above and otherobjects in view, the invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements with a garment supporter of upper and lower fastening de-' vices for attaching the device to a support and for attachment to a stocking for holding up the latter.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention, adapted for womens hose and constructed and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a view in front perspective of a supporter embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the combined pin fastener and web attaching device at the top of the supporter.

Fig. 4 is a detail View of the pin fastener combined with the lower attaching buckle.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of the lowerattaching buckle showing the ears for securing the pin fastener, before the ears are bent to looking position on the pin fastener.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the upper buckle.

In the preferred form of my invention as illustrated in the drawings, I employ a web 1 which may be of elastic material similar in character to that usually employed in garters or suspending devices.

At the upper end of the web I provide a top buckle indicated as a whole by the numeral 2 and I also utilize a lower buckle indicated as a whole by the numeral 3. The upper buckle is designed for attachment to the lower edge of a corset and the lower buckle 3 is to be attached to stocking.

The attaching device 2 comprises a front the hose or plate 4 which may have any suitable orna-.

mentation thereon, and is stamped from a blank or sheet of thin metal. The front plate is fastened withends 5-5, and rear flanges 67, spaced back of the'plate sufficiently to accommodate the pin fastening device which is indicated as a whole by the numeral 8 in Fig. 3. This pin fastening device has the resilient pin member 9 and coiled spring end 10, the former being passed through an opening 11 in the perforated ear 7 at the back of the plate 4. I The pin member is.

provided with apair ofvertical bars 12-12 which are inclosed within the cars 13, 13 of the'buckle 2, and by this arrangement the pin fastener is retained in the buckle mem ber 2 and the pin 9 is snapped under the hook 14 of the pin fastener. It will readily be apparent that the pin 9 is designed to be passed through a supporting fabric, as for instance a portion of a corset, and the flanges 7 and 6 are utilized, the former as a support, and the latter as a guide for the pin 9. The flange 6 also forms a guard to prevent the point of the pin catching into any portion of the wearers garments.

The base bar 15 of the pin fastener is provided with a pair of integral spurs 16 that penetrate the fabric of the web 1, which latter is passed around the bar 15, and stitched, as in Fig. 6, and by this means the top fastening device is secured to the web 1.

The lower buckle 3 is quite similar in construction to the upper buckle, and employs a front plate 17 slotted at 18 to accommodate the lower end of the web 1, which, is looped at 19 and passed upward through the buckle at the rear and then attached to the slide 18 on the web.

The front plate 17 has a guard flange 20 and a perforated supporting flange 21. The pin 22 is passed through the perforated car 21 and its point is guarded by the flange 20. A coiled spring portion 23, is provided at one end of this pin fastener and a hook 2 1 terial of the loop 19 to insure a stable frictional contact between the loop and pin fastener and to enablethe loop to turn freely around the roller in adjusting the length of the web 1.

The tassel 30 is attached at the front of the plate 17 by means of which the length of the suspending web may be adjusted through the medium of an adjusting buckle 18' on the web.

The pin 9 may readily be passed through the supporting fabric and engaged under its hook 1a which is guarded Within the flange 6 and the coil provides the requisite resiliency for the pin.

Similarly the coil 23 provides resiliency for the pin 22 and the lower end of the garment supporter may be attached to the hose by this pin 22. The flange 20 serves as a guard, and provides an additional keeper for the pin 22 as does the flange 6 serve as a guard and keeper for the pin 9.

The ears 13 and 26 as seen in Fig. 2 are adapted to be clamped :around'the bars 12 or of the respective pin fastenergand these cars afford astable support and connection between the pins and their plates.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim isl. The combination in a garment sup porter with a web, of a pin fastening device including a pin member and approximately. parallel bar, -a plate having a rear perfo-' rated end flange and the pin member of said fastening device passed therethrough, means for securing the base bar at the ends of said plate, a hook for the'pin' member, and an end guard flange inclosing said hook.

2. The combination in a garment supvice to said plate, and a hook on'said device for said pin member. v i

3. The combination in a garment supporting device with an integralplate member having end walls and rear flanges, one of which is perforated, of a fastening device comprising a pin member passed through said perforatedflange and provided with a' hook, endbars to said pin member, and end ears on said plate clamped around sai dbars.

4:. The combination in a garment supporting device with a slotted plate member hav ng spacedrear flanges one of w'lnchis perforated, of a fastener'comprising a pin" member passed through said perforated flange, apin hook inclosed within the other flange, and bars on said fastener, and ears on the front plate embracing said bars, a base bar, and a frictionalfroller on'said base bar adapted to engage the loop of a web" passed through said slottedpl'ate.

MARY STAR-MER. 

